Capabilities

The Duckiematrix was born to serve as the base rendering engine for 3D applications in Duckietown.

• Embedded capabilities to simulate sensors like cameras, wheel encoders, time-of-flight lidars, IMUs, etc make it perfect for simulating robots in Duckietown;

• A proprietary, high-performance, distributed rendering orchestrator allows the simulation of arbitrarily large fleets of robots by distributing the rendering tasks across multiple GPUs/computers over the network;

• A naturally distributed architecture with a central configurator node removes any needs for network configurations;

• Over-the-network rendering makes it easy to develop video games, education-on-demand portals, virtual gatherings platforms, live broadcasting of public (or private) events like competitions or research experiments, all in a fully navigable 3D environment;

• Environment representation based on the multi-layer world definition format provides human-readable map representations that are easily extendable.

• The Scriptable Map feature allows the definition of custom behaviors using Python scripts embedded alongside the map definition.

• Executable locally without the need for persistent internet connections.